What an amazing and wonderful, spooky, thrilling, tasteful, awesomely written ghost story! From page one I was totally sucked in and became devoted to reading this book within a day. I had waited a long time for this one.
The story takes place in the Victorian days, candlelight by night, horse and carriage, spooky foggy London streets and all that great stuff I wish I could have experienced in real life. Charles Dickens has just caught the eye of everyone in the country. His stories have wowed them through newspapers, periodicals and in live presentation.
The main character's father dies after attending one of Charles Dickens ghostly readings. A few days later she comes across a newspaper ad for a Governess. The ad is short and mysterious.
She takes the job, looking after 2 children. A boy and a girl. Then the story and all its glory begins.
Many governess' have come before her, in a short amount of time and she must ask why. Where are the children's parents, why do the children act strangely from time to time, why is she seeing shadows, hearing voices, seeing things that could not be there.
This was a beautiful story and had me crying a bit and explaining that would ruin everything for the reader. The book had an excellent ending too.
I deff recommend this one!
The story takes place in the Victorian days, candlelight by night, horse and carriage, spooky foggy London streets and all that great stuff I wish I could have experienced in real life. Charles Dickens has just caught the eye of everyone in the country. His stories have wowed them through newspapers, periodicals and in live presentation.
The main character's father dies after attending one of Charles Dickens ghostly readings. A few days later she comes across a newspaper ad for a Governess. The ad is short and mysterious.
She takes the job, looking after 2 children. A boy and a girl. Then the story and all its glory begins.
Many governess' have come before her, in a short amount of time and she must ask why. Where are the children's parents, why do the children act strangely from time to time, why is she seeing shadows, hearing voices, seeing things that could not be there.
This was a beautiful story and had me crying a bit and explaining that would ruin everything for the reader. The book had an excellent ending too.
I deff recommend this one!
